Psalms 47:5 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

God is gone up with a shout This is meant literally of the ark, wherein God was present, which went or was carried up to the hill of Zion, where the tabernacle was erected for it, and afterward to the hill of Moriah into the temple, which solemnities were accompanied with the shouts and acclamations of the people, and with the sound of trumpets; but mystically, it is to be understood of Christ's ascension into heaven, as may be gathered by comparing this with Ephesians 4:8, where the like words, uttered concerning the ark upon the same occasion, Psalms 68:18, are directly applied to Christ's ascension.